Vincenzo Casillo
| Vincenzo Casillo | |
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| Born | San Giuseppe Vesuviano, Campania, Italy |
| Died | January 29, 1983 Rome, Lazio, Italy |
| Cause of death | Car bomb |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Other names |
"'O Nirone" (The Big Black) |
| Known for | High ranking member of the Nuova Camorra Organizzata |
| Allegiance |
Nuova Camorra Organizzata Italian Secret Services |
Vincenzo Casillo (? - January 29, 1983) was an Italian Camorrista and the second in command of the Nuova Camorra Organizzata, a Camorra organization in Naples. His nickname was "'o Nirone" (The Big Black).
He was one of the earliest members of the Nuova Camorra Organizzata, since its formation in 1970. Casillo was highly trusted and soon rose to become the deputy and main military chief of crime boss, Raffaele Cutolo, during the period when he was imprisoned in the prisons of Poggioreale and Ascoli Piceno. As the Nuova Camorra Organizzata's second in command, he participated in a high-level meeting with representatives of the Sicilian Mafia and Camorra clans to try to put an end to the bloody war between the Nuova Camorra Organizzata and their rivals from the Nuova Famiglia, together with Cutolo’s sister, Rosetta.
In June 1996, the Sicilian Mafia pentito, Francesco Di Carlo claimed that Vincenzo Casillo together with another Camorrista, Sergio Vaccari were responsible for the murder of Roberto Calvi, the chairman of Banco Ambrosiano who was dubbed the "God's Banker". Casillo once confessed to murdering the bankrupt financier to Enrico Madonna, Cutolo's lawyer. Madonna himself was later murdered in October 1993, three days after telling a journalist that he was willing to tell a parliamentary commission all he knew about the Cirillo kidnapping affair.
Casillo also played an active role in negotiating the release of the Christian Democrat politician Ciro Cirillo, who had been kidnapped by the Red Brigades on April 27, 1981. He managed to do so, in spite of being a wanted man at the time.
On January 29, 1983, Casillo was murdered by a bomb planted under the pedal of his car, next to the SISMI Forte Boccea in Rome. Pasquale Galasso, chief of the Galasso clan and member of the rival Nuova Famiglia headed by Carmine Alfieri, was responsible for the blast. This was one of the first times that a Camorra clan had used this kind of technique to dispose of a rival.
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